Saint John's Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in Collegeville Township, Minnesota, United States, affiliated with the American-Cassinese Congregation.

The community contacted twelve architects and asked them to submit plans for a church which would "be truly an architectural monument to the service of God.

Breuer's design incorporated the traditional axis of baptistery, nave, and altar in a modern concrete structure.

[7] The monastic choir stalls and abbot's throne were placed in a less traditional semi-circular shape around the main altar, which also served to invite the congregation closer.

[citation needed] Also located on the grounds of the abbey are the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, the Episcopal House of Prayer (Diocese of Minnesota), the original Minnesota Public Radio studio, and the Saint John the Baptist Parish Center.

The 2,500-acre (10 km2) grounds of the abbey comprise lakes, prairie, and hardwoods on a rolling glacial moraine, and have been designated the Saint John's Arboretum.

[10] It was nominated for being an architecturally and historically significant campus of a leading religious and educational institution of the Order of Saint Benedict.

Saint John's Abbey has been subject of several child abuse cases with accounts reaching far back as the 1970's.

[14][15][16] (Michael) Bik was accused in 1997 of abusing two teenage boys in the 1970s, before his ordination, when he taught at the parish school of St. Stephen Catholic Church in Anoka.

Three men filed lawsuits alleging abuse by (Francisco) Schulte when he served in Raleigh, N.C., in the mid-1980s, and at a Puerto Rico boarding school operated by St. John’s.

(Finian) McDonald, (Brennan) Maiers, (Dunstan) Moorse, (Allen) Tarlton, (Francis) Hoefgen and (John) Kelly acknowledged wrongdoing and sought treatment, Klassen said in 2002.

The victim's lawyer stated that one of the settlement conditions was for the Abbery to release documents on 19 monks accused of child abuse.